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How many news (RSS) feeds do you subscribe to in your RSS reader?
1/1: How many news (RSS) feeds do you subscribe to in your RSS reader?
Other polls | 3,690 votes | 25 comments
Frankly don't see the benefit
Browsing the actual website in the first place is most natural and effective to me. Why bother looking at another app/page for interesting things only to have to click and be directed to another app/page to read the details. Most sites provide easy to use summaries with links to details- MacUpdate, for instance.
Frankly don't see the benefit
Agreed, the only places I have an rss feed to is places that I don't often go to UNLESS there is an update (Job sites, the BSG Blog, Wired, etc.) and it is all in Safari. Having yet another dedicated program to manage RSS feeds seems clumsy and unnecessary. I have Safari and Mail open at all times and as an RSS "reader" will open the full page in my web browser I don't see the point in having things like NetNewsWire and the like. But then my RSS needs are pretty simple, or if you prefer/disagree: simpleminded.
Frankly don't see the benefit
I shared your opinions for quite a while. Then the number of sites I wanted to keep up with outstripped my ability to visit those sites regularly.
Frankly don't see the benefit
Ironically I find that this 'time saver' (rss) has had the effect of making me more distracted. My answer is to look for sites that update less often with a higher (for me) interest ratio. I'm looking for a low noise ratio. The end result is that I love rss but I keep trying to reduce the number of feeds or replace feeds with sites that do the distilling for me.
Frankly don't see the benefit
After trying RSS for the first time when Safari offered it, I used it for a while. But then I realized that I always go read the complete articles any way, so it didn't save any time in loading the site, because I had to wait for the RSS, then wait again for the site, so I was using more bandwidth. Plus, I like lookin' at the pictures on the sites I frequent (Jalopnik, Gizmodo, etc).
Frankly don't see the benefit
I couldn't agree less. As soon as you visit a few dozen sites a day you'll realize that you're not reading every single article posted on that site. Browsing by headlines for articles that interest you is really the way to go if you don't wanna spend the day reading daily news.
Safari's RSS stinks
If thats all you used, then I understand why you don't use RSS. Try Firefox.
Safari's RSS stinks
I agree -- Firefox's implementation of RSS is much more useful than Safari's. I use it on my Wintel machine at work. Since I prefer Safari at home, I basically never use RSS. I'm not really sure how going to a web page of less informative links for a site like this is more useful than the default mode, which contains more information before the jump. RSS would have meant a lot more 10 years ago with slower connections, but with broadband, it's irrelevant to me.
Misleading
the set of answers is rather non-informative, in my opinion. I have 24 feeds, but this poll puts me in the same group as the one-feed people. doesn't seem like you learn that much from such a poll. my suggestion (though it may be too late now) is to break up the smaller answers, and consolidate the larger ones into ‘More than 150’ or ‘More than 100’.
Misleading
I have done that in the past, but then I received complaints that the results weren't equally-sized buckets. Either way, it seems, I lose :).
Misleading
What do you do for people that are subscribed to many feeds only because Safari comes with so many? That's how I got mine. RSS feeds I've actually subscribed to myself total only three though. Maybe you weren't concerned with that level of detail.
Polling isn't easy and requires careful consideration
I guess we are gaining a better appreciate for people who have to do this kind of thing full time. That's a good thing because it makes us all think of how we gather and use information in our lives on a daily basis.
Polling isn't easy and requires careful consideration
Ron:
Bloglines for RSS
I use Bloglines to subscribe to sites I do not visit every day. It allows me to catch up on blogs from any web browser, so I don't have to be at my home machine (even though that's generally where I do read blogs). Bloglines doesn't format things the way they are in the real site, but if I want to see that, I can just click the link. For your next poll, Rob, you might want to ask RSS readers which client they use.
Bloglines for RSS
We did, in March 2005 :). I may run it again in March, for a one-year-later view.
RSS takes browsing back to origin
As I use the built-in RSS-abilities in my prefered browsers (Safari and Firefox) I think I get the best from both worlds. That is why I overcome to have a look over up to fifty prefered websites almost every day.
Cannot Live Without Safari's RSS
Honestly. Since Safari 2.0 came out I've been a huge fan of its RSS integration. The key to really getting the most out of Safari's RSS is to just make one bookmark folder in your bookmark bar for all your favorite RSS feeds. You get an update of how many new articles are available and can check them all out just by clicking "view all RSS articles."
Cannot Live Without Safari's RSS
I do the same as you and use Safari RSS with a bookmark bar folder (though I read each feed by itself). I now get ALL the news from about 20 sites while I'm enjoying my morning coffee. Many sites also look better in RSS!
> 400 feeds?
How in the world does one manage to subscribe to > 400 feeds (and actually read them, else why would you subscribe to them anyway?)? I'm impressed...
> 400 feeds?
I'm not in the 400+ feed category, but I can see how it could happen. A lot of my feeds are for things on Sourceforge or Rubyforge. I want to know when a particular package is updated, but the updates are not frequent.
comment feeds
I hate having to go back to a site, find the blog post again, and reload the page just to see if anyone has posted a new comment.
Me, too. I've often wished this site had comment feeds (and/or e-mail notification). That would be a huge time-saver for discovering new comments for hints I'm interested in following, especially when they show up weeks or months apart. Any possibility of adding comment feeds here, Rob?
Amount of feeds
I subscribe to 77 text and picture feeds in Netnewswire Lite, fastest way to see and choose the information I wish to read.
About 50, maybe?
I put 25-49, but it depends... is each link a "news" link, or just the ones I've subscribed to as "news"? Ah well.
I find RSS annoying
Most sites only RSS the headline and a blurb, not the whole article, and most RSS readers feel like clumsy email- or usenet-wannabes. I find RSS useful in situations like GMail's clipping above the messages, and perhaps for tracking security alerts from CERT, but for blogs and news sites I visit the sites directly.
Vienna
I visit this site and a few others in Safari or Opera daily. It's not in my feeds list for this reason. |
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